Out of Many Faiths
Religious Diversity and the American Promise
1st Edition
Published on 23. September 2019
248 pages
978-0-691-19696-1 (ISBN)
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A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identity
America is the most religiously diverse nation on the planet. In today's volatile climate of religious conflict and distrust, how do we affirm that the American promise is deeply intertwined with how each of us engages with people of different beliefs? Eboo Patel, former faith adviser to Barack Obama, provides answers to this timely question. In this thought-provoking book, Patel draws on his personal experience as a Muslim in America to examine the importance of religious diversity in the nation's cultural, political, and economic life. He explores how religious language has given the United States some of its most enduring symbols and inspired its most vital civic institutions-and demonstrates how the genius of the American experiment lies in its empowerment of all people.
America is the most religiously diverse nation on the planet. In today's volatile climate of religious conflict and distrust, how do we affirm that the American promise is deeply intertwined with how each of us engages with people of different beliefs? Eboo Patel, former faith adviser to Barack Obama, provides answers to this timely question. In this thought-provoking book, Patel draws on his personal experience as a Muslim in America to examine the importance of religious diversity in the nation's cultural, political, and economic life. He explores how religious language has given the United States some of its most enduring symbols and inspired its most vital civic institutions-and demonstrates how the genius of the American experiment lies in its empowerment of all people.
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Eboo Patel is founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, a nonprofit organization that promotes interfaith leadership on college campuses. He is the author of Interfaith Leadership, Sacred Ground, and Acts of Faith. Twitter @EbooPatel
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Religious Diversity and the American Promise
- 2 Cordoba House
- 3 The Islamophobia Industry in the White House
- 4 Toward an Interfaith America
- 5 The American Ummah in the Era of Islamophobia
- 6 IMAN
- 7 Postscript: Potluck Nation
- Commentaries
- 8 The Challenge of Pluralism after the End of White Christian America
- 9 Hope without a Common Good
- 10 Plural America Needs Myths: An Essay in Foundational Narratives in Response to Eboo Patel
- Notes
- Index
- Discussion Questions
